Unemployment Extension Update

Informative Headlines

• Why the Labor Market Is Not as Strong as You Think.


• Unemployment and the Gender Gap: 5 Things You Should Know.


• What You Need to Know about the Hidden Recession.


• How Would Presidential Hopefuls Reduce Unemployment?.


• Tens of Millions of Dollars in Jobless Claims Paid to the Dead.


• Unemployment Linked to Mental Health Problems.


• More States Cutting Unemployment Benefits as Jobless Claims Edge Upward.


• Unemployment Rate Dips to 7-Year Low While Long-Term Unemployment Remains High.


• Does Cutting Unemployment Benefits Reduce Unemployment?.


• 1 in 5 Suicides Linked to Unemployment, Researchers Find.


• Is a Higher Unemployment Rate in an Improving Economy Actually a Good Thing?.


• Unemployment Rate Improvement Could Halt Push for Extension in 2015.




• Unemployment Predictions for 2015.


• U.S. Unemployment Rate Hits New Low.


• Unemployment and the Student Loan Crisis: What You Should Know.


• Why Long-Term Unemployment Keeps Rising.


• Not Enough Votes for Extension as Unemployment Hits 6-Year Low.


• Wal-Mart: Adding Fuel to the Underemployment Crisis.


• Colorado’s Secret to Crushing Unemployment.


• Will Obama’s Immigration Action Mean Fewer Jobs for Americans?.


• Which American Cities Have the Lowest Unemployment Rates?.


• Black Unemployment Rate Still Hovers Above 10%.


• Could an Unemployment Extension Be Back on the Table?.


• Think US Unemployment is High? These 4 Countries Have Outrageously High Unemployment Rates.


• Record Low Unemployment Benefits and Lack of an Extension on the Table During Midterms.


• Unemployment Rates Fall for America's Least Educated Workers.


• 20% of Workers Laid Off in the Past 5 Years Are Still Unemployed Today.


• Obama and Boehner Continue to Ignore Elevated Long-Term Unemployment Numbers.


• The Jobless Generation: Americans Debate How to Handle Youth Unemployment.


• Unemployment Edges Upward in Majority of the US with No Extended Benefits in Sight.


• Controversial New Study Questions the Validity of US Unemployment Rate.


• Does an Unemployment Extension Actually Increase Unemployment Rates?


• Recent College Grads & Unemployment: How Many Graduates Can Actually Find Jobs.


• The Current State of Unemployment.


• Federal Funding Available for College Course. Pell Grants Give Up to $5,500 for Training.


• Unemployment Offers Opportunities for New Jobs Training


• Unemployment Drops as Lawmakers Debate Benefits Extension.


• Federal Lawmakers Continue Wrangling Over Unemployment Extension


• 99ers Tier 5 Extension


• Federal Tier 5


• New Extension For 99ers


• Congress Passes Extension


• Extended Federal Benefits


• Federal Funding Update Options


• 99ers of 2011


• Compensation Act of 2010


• New 99ers Unemployment Bill


• House Vote in 2011



• Latest On Tier 5

Press Announcements & Tier Five Revisions

• Mark Zandi Chief Economist, Moody's Analytics
• Left Behind: The Long-term Unemployed Struggle in an Improving Economy


• Grants in the amount of 170 Million dollars to match long-term unemployed Americans with new jobs


• Ready To Work Partnership


• The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias: Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up? - Should we trust the US unemployment rate?


• Human Capital Dynamics and the U.S. Labor Market report released by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta indicates that the unemployment extension had no positive impact on unemployment rate.


• Ready to Work: Job-Driven Training and American Opportunity


• New Benefits Extension


• Fed ED Extension


• Extension Of Benefits for 2011


• Obama Signs Legislation Bill


• All About Tier 5 99ers


• The Senate Votes This Year


• What About After 99 Weeks?


• 99ers Compensation Plan